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Friday, October 5, 2012

Anxious Politics

We are excited to announce the launch of a new invited speaker
series and inter-disciplinary scholarly community: The Working
Group in Political Psychology and Behavior (WogPoP). Our motivation
is to bring together a diverse and friendly community of scholars
whose work relates to political behavior and psychology but for
whom a strong cross-disciplinary venue for dialogue has so far been
missing.

Topics such as identity politics, ethnic fractionalization,
voting behavior, partisan identity, and corruption (to name just a
few) are frequently addressed by scholars from American politics,
comparative politics, public policy, social psychology, sociology
and economics. We hope to provide this wide-ranging group of
scholars, whose work shares a common denominator, an
inter-disciplinary 'home' at this speaker series.

In the spring term we will hear, among others, from Shanto
Iyengar (Political Science, Stanford University) and Bertram
Gawronski (Social Psychology, University of Western Ontario). Each
term, there will also be a graduate student session, devoted to
short presentations by graduate students and providing an
opportunity for varied and inter-disciplinary feedback on
works-in-progress.

All meetings will be held Fridays 12pm-1:30pm in CGIS K450.
Lunch will be provided. If you would like to be added to the e-mail
list, please contact Kris-Stella Trump (kstrump@fas.harvard.edu) or
Anthony Fowler (fowler@fas.harvard.edu).

Everyone is welcome to attend. Please circulate this message to
others who may find the series interesting.